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No. 443,368. Patented Dec. 23,.1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM MAONAMAR, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO W'ILLIAH H. HUBBARD, OF SAME PLACE.

COIN-OPERATED RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,368, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed April 22, 1890. Serial No. 349,019. (No model.)

To all whom it 11mg concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM MAONAMAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State 5 of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Operated Receptacles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to coin-operated receptacles for Operachairs, and is especially intended asan improvement upon the receptacle described and claimed in United States Letters Patent No. 405,578, granted June 18, 1889. In the patent referred to the receptacle is made tubular in form, with the receiving-opening in its periphery, and with such construction it was necessary to pour the materials directly into the receptacle, which has proven to be inconvenient both in filling and emptying.

The chief obj ects of this invention are to pro- 2 5 vide a receptacle which shall be cheap to construct and of such construction that a package-such as a cornucopia of candy or other me1'chandise-n1ay be inserted and removed intact, to thereby facilitate filling and obvi- 0 ate the necessity of removing the articles piece by piece, as heretofore, also to so construct the receptacle that the coin alone will not operate to unlock the door, and to provide a single push-rod that will operate sev- 3 5 ei'al compartments, all of which will be hereinafter fully explained.

Vith these objects in view the invention consists in the special construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of the coin-operated receptacle, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

' Figure 1, Sheet 1,1'epresents in front elevation a coin-operated receptacle constructed 5 in accordance with this invention, the door leading to the money-compartment being broken off; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same, one of the compartment-doors being shown as open; Fig. 3, an under side view of a portion of one of the compartment-doors; Fig. 4;,

Sheet 2, a rear elevation of the receptacle, the supplemental back being removed; and Fig. 5, a vertical section on dotted line 5 5, Fig. i.

In the drawings, A represents the casing, which will preferably be constructed of metal, and will be divided into, preferably, three compartmentsi. a, two compartments B B for the reception of confections and one com partment O to receive the coins after they operate to open the compartments B B. The partitions D, which divide the easing into compartments, will preferably diverge from their upper ends, so as to render the two compartments B B tapering or larger attheir upper ends than at their lower ends, the outer sides .of said compartments being also inclined inward at their lower ends. This where the sides are flat will give a pyramidal shape to each of said compartments, or ap- 7o proximately such a shape, thus making each of said compartments aconvenient receptacle for a conical package of confections or other merchandise, and permitting the receptacle to be constructed with a series of confectionreceiving compartments without occupying much room, the chief object of such construction being to economize in space and have the confection compartments tapering or larger at their upper than at their lower ends. The said compartments, it is obvious, might be uniform in area at the top and bottom; but the construction described is preferable, as by diverging the partitions D from the top a coin-receiving compartment O is formed cent-rally at the lower end without adding to the width of the casing A.

Hinged to the outer sides of the compartments B B, at their upper edges, are doors E, which doors have a transparent glass 6 o fitted in the frames thereof, through which the contents of the compartments may be seen, each hinge of each door E being provided with a spring e to automatically open the door when its catch 6 at the forward end 5 is released from the'hooked upper end of the locking-lever F by the operation of the coin and push-rod G, as hereinafter explained.

Formed in the back of the casing A, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, are two irregularly- IOO curved grooves G, which extend from the top of said casing to the side of and communicate with the coin receiving compartment (3. These grooves are shallow, approximately the thickness of the coin to be used, and are located approximately central with relation to both confection-compartments, one to each compartment, and are intended to receive and direct the coins so as to act upon the lower ends of the locking-levers F, and formed centrally in said back is a groove G preferably straight, in which said locking -levers rest and are pivoted.

The locking-levers F are pivoted at 5 one at each side of the vertical central line of the groove G with their lower ends projected below and in sufficient near proximity to the ends of the coin-grooves G to, in their normal or locked positions, prevent coins of proper size passing them and dropping into the coinreceiving compartment, but shall render it necessary to force said coins downwardbyseparatemeans,hereinafterdescribed, which throws said levers inward at this end and unlocks the door or doors at the top of the confection-compart1nents, said levers I having each an outward projection j" at its upper end, which extends through an opening f in the back into the confection-compartment to which it belongs, and is engaged by the inwardly-projecting catch 6 upon the door, a spring f, interposed between the levers and side edges of the groove G normally pressing the upper ends of the levers inward. Each of said levers has an Outward projection f at its lower end to abut against the side of the coin-compartment, which projection acts to prevent the coin, after contacting with the end of the lever, from falling inward into said coin-compartment.

Extended centrally through the entire length of the casing A, upon the inner side of the back, is a push-rod G, said push-rod being located centrally between the two locking-levers F, and being guided at or near its lower end by strap h, secured to the inner side of the back, and at its upper end in a slot formed in the top of the casing. Secured to said push-rod G, at a point normally just above the delivering ends of the coin-grooves G, is a transverse bar 78, which bar extends sufliciently far at each side of the pushq'od to, when the rod is depressed, strike the upper edges of the coins resting against the lower ends of the levers and push them down into the coin-receiving compartment, such action forcing the lower ends of the levers inward and releasing them at their upper ends from the catches on the compartment-doors, allowing said doors to automatically open. The lower end of thepush-rod will preferably be reduced in size to form a shoulder, and a spring h will be interposed between said shoulder and the bottom of the casing to keep the push'rod normally elevated, a thumbpiece it being provided at the upper end of the push-rod to assist in depressing it.

The coin-receiviugcompartmentisprovided with a door, only partly shown in the drawings, having a lock to close the front opening thereof and render ingress impossible without the proper key.

If desired, the lower end of each lever F may be extended outward sufiieiently to cause the coin, after it strikes and operates the lever to unlock the door, to bind between the extreme lower end of said lever and casing and prevent its return movement and accidental relocking ot the compartment-door until the contents of said compartment is removed and until said coin is forced past the binding-point either by another coin or blank made for this purpose. Therefore I do not desire to limit myself to the exact construction of locking-lever shown in the drawings.

I claim- 1. In a coin-operated receptacle,the casing A, having tapered or inclined sides and divided by partitions D, so as to form the inclined or tapered confection-receiving compartments B ll, and the money-receivin g compartments C between them, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a coin-operated receptacle, a tapered casing closed at its lower end, having partitions D therein, which diverge from the top at or near the center to form tapered confection-receiving compartments that are smaller at their lower ends, and a money-receiving com partmcnt between said lower ends, in combination with spring-operated doors at the upper ends of said eon[eetion-eompartments, having transparent glasses therein, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a coin-operated receptacle, the casing A, having tapered merchandise receiving compartments, as B B, a money-receiving compartment 0, and a transparent glass or glasses secured movably or otherwise in said casing, whereby the contents of the com partments l3 B may be seen, substantially as described.

l. The combination, with the casing, of a coin-operated receptacle having the pivoted door-locking levers F, of the push-rod G, having the cross-bar 7L2 extended at both sides to bear upon coins at one or both outer edges of the levers, wherebyone or both levers may be operated positively by one movement of the push-rod, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof Iatlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VM. MACNAMAR.

\Yitnesses:

JOSEPH A. MINTURN, N. E. (I. WHITNEY. 

